Ginger Pye
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America Before the Mayflower
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The "wonderful and tragic story" of Indian cultures in America from the Ice Age arrival of Asiatic peoples across the Bering Strait to the Spanish conquests. The author opens up the thrilling notebook of the archeologist from which the histories and fates of various Indian cultures have been uncovered. The early hunters, the basketmakers, and moundbuilders of the South and West, the Mayans, Aztecs, Iroquois, and Incas have ll contributed magnificent chapters in the story of man; the author focuses a certsin perspective upon these cultures, both living and extinct, offering to the young reader a basis of comparison to our own civilization.
Minn of the Mississippi
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Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Defender
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Turgen, a shepherd in northeastern Siberia, defends the wild mountain rams and befriends a widow and her children.
Light at Tern Rock
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Ronnie and his aunt take care of the lighthouse while the keeper is on vacation, and when he does not return as expected, they discover that Tern Rock is a perfect place to spend Christmas.
The Apple and the Arrow
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Eleven-year-old Walter Tell awaits the skillful demonstration of his father William, a Swiss freedom fighter, who will shoot an apple from his head.